Main candidate Lena Schilling and occasion chief Werner Kogler made requires mobilization in entrance of a whole bunch of supporters. Schilling praised everybody’s efforts as “unfuckingbelievable,” and Kogler was unimpressed by “nameless private assaults.”
“It is a good factor that the Greens aren’t simply knocked down,” he mentioned. In view of the headwind, Schilling thanked everybody who stood behind and beside her. “I need to say how proud I’m to be a part of this occasion and to struggle with you,” she demonstratively carried her loyalty to the occasion, which had come below hearth in media experiences: “You are such powerful individuals.” She described the election marketing campaign as “fairly a trip.” As soon as once more, she emphasised that solely the Greens have been credibly dedicated “to the local weather and in opposition to the suitable.”
“We did not go into politics to make issues straightforward for ourselves”
Earlier than Schilling, Kogler – in a white shirt and darkish sun shades – performed the position of the skilled whip-in for the Greens. “It wasn’t straightforward, however we did not go into politics to make it straightforward for ourselves anyway,” he mentioned with gallows humor in view of the doubts concerning the honesty and occasion loyalty of the 23-year-old prime candidate that have been anonymously made public by the every day newspaper “Der Customary”.
- Video: The speech by Lena Schilling
“We’re braving the headwind,” pressured Kogler, figuring out somebody utterly totally different as his opponent, specifically “pure concreters and local weather destroyers, and the right-wing extremists.” Sunday’s election is regarding an ecological, social, liberal and, above all, democratic Europe. “And you may solely get that blend with us Greens,” he pressured. Additionally current have been authorities members Leonore Gewessler and Johannes Rauch and membership chief Sigrid Maurer.
- Video: The speech by Werner Kogler
Ines Vukajlović and Thomas Waitz, who’re quantity three and two on the Inexperienced Celebration checklist behind Schilling, additionally spoke. Vukajlović praised the weeks of the election marketing campaign as an “extremely intense, inspiring and actually nice time”. Waitz, in flip, attacked the ÖVP specifically, which had allied itself with the far proper in opposition to environmental, species and local weather safety. His name: “Cease colluding with the fascists!”
Photograph: EVA MANHART (APA)
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Photograph: EVA MANHART (APA)
